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The Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system (www.secretservice.gov)
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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Spam seems to be it's primary purpose. The "could take down the whole NYC cell phone network" is fear mongering. They wanted to make money in ethically bankrupt ways, and that's all.

Wired has generally been better at journalism than a lot of more "official" outlets, and here we are again.